The Beatles and the Guru

The truly extraordinary feature of our time isn’t the faithlessness of the Western people, it is their utter, total ignorance of the Christian religion.

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The Beatles with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (second from left) in Wales, August 1967.

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Over the course of this year, the centenary of William F. Buckley’s birth, we will republish an article by him weekly. This week’s column muses about the Beatles’ futile and expensive search for meaning in South Asia.

London — The doings of the Beatles are minutely recorded here in England and, as a matter of fact, elsewhere, inasmuch as it is true what one of the Beatle-gentlemen said a year or so ago, that they are more popular than Jesus Christ. It is a matter of considerable public interest that all four of the Beatles have gone off to a place called Rishikesh, in India, to commune with one Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

William F. Buckley Jr.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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